北京联合大学大学英语课程一课一练试卷(第二册Unit One)(出题人：迟秀湘)

北京联合大学大学英语课程一课一练试卷（第二册Unit One）（出题人：迟秀湘）

Part I Writing (30 minutes)

Directions：For this part，you are allowed 30 minutes to write a Letter of Apology. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below in Chinese：

1. 表达自己对晚交论文一事的歉意.

2. 说明未能按时交论文的原因.

3. 表示自己将尽快把论文补交上并表示以后将按时交作业.

Part II Reading Comprehension (skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)

Directions: In this part you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1.

For questions 1―7 cho ose the best answer from the four choices marked [A] [B] [C] and [D].

For questions 8―10 complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.

Another Intelligence

Emotional intelligence as a theory was first brought to public attention by the book Emotional Intelligence Why It can Matter More Than IQ by Daniel Goleman but the theory itself is in fact attributed to two Americans John D Mayer and Peter Salovey. What is emotional intelligence exactly? According to Goleman Emotional Intelligence consists of five key elements.

The first is knowing one‟s own emotions: being able to recognize that one is in an emotional state and having the ability to identify which emotion is being experienced even if it is not a particularly comfortable feeling to admit to e.g. jealously or envy.

Emotional awareness can then lead to managing one‟s emotions. This involves dealing with emotions like jealousy 、resentment and anger etc, that one may have difficulty accepting by perhaps giving oneself comfort food or doing nice things when one is feeling low. Many people do this instinctively by buying chocolate or treating themselves; others are able to wrap themselves in positive thoughts or …mother themselves‟. There are of course many people who are incapable of doing this and so need to be taught.

The third area is self-motivation. Our emotions can simultaneously empower and hinder us so it is important to develop the ability to control them.

Strategies can be learnt whereby emotions are set aside to be dealt with at a later date. For example when dealing with the success or good fortune of others it is better not to suppress any negative emotion that arises. One just has to recognize it is there. And then one just needs to be extra careful when making decisions and not allow one‟s emotions to cloud the issue by letting them dictate how one functions with that person. The separation of logic and emotion is not easy when dealing with people.

As social beings we need to be able to deal with other people which brings us to the next item on Goleman‟s list namely: recognizing emotions in other people. This means in effect having or developing “social radar” i n learning to read the weather systems around individual or groups of people. Obviously leading on from this is the ability to handle relationships. If we can recognize understand and then deal with other people‟s emotions we can function better both socially and professionally. Not being tangible emotions are difficult to analy ze and quantify compounded by the fact tha t each area in the list above does not operate in isolation. Each of us has misread a friend‟s or a colleague‟s behavior to u s and other people. The classic example is the shy person categorized by some people as arrogant and distant and by others as lively and friendly and very personable. How can two different groups make a definitive analysis of someone that is so strikingly contradictory? And yet this happens on a daily basis in all our relationships — even to the point of misreading the behavior of those close to us! In the work scenario this can cost money. And so it makes economic sense for business to be aware of it and develop strategies for employing people and dealing with their employees.

All common sense you might say. Goleman himself has even suggested that emotional intelligence is just a new way of describing competence; what some people might call savior-faire or savoir-vivre. Part of the problem here is that society or some parts of society have forgotten that these skills ever existed and have found the need to re-invent them.

But the emergence of Emotional Intelligence as a theory suggests that the family situations and other social interactions where social skills were honed in the past are fast disappearing so that people now sadly need to be re-skilled.

1. Emotional Intelligence as a theory ______.

[A] was unheard of until the 1970s [B] is attributed to Daniel Goleman

[C] consists of at least five key areas [D] is attributed to Mayer and Salovey

2. Which is one way of controlling emotions?

[A] To put them to the side to deal with later. [B] To use both logic and emotion.

[C] To suppress the negative ones. [D] To hinder them.

3. As well as being intangible what is the problem with emotions?

[A] They are difficult. [B] They are compounded. [C] They are difficult to qualify. [D] They do not operate in isolation.

4. Misreading the behavior of others ______.